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“ Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come. ”

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One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound of my own weeping. For I had hoped to open my eyes on Heaven, where my father was; and they had only pulled me back to Hell.

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She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...

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Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

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Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.

~ Sarah Waters